Yesterday I received a mail from Martin Schulze about the Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0.
Etch should be relased on December 2006. It's the first
Debian version which includes the
amd64 port.
And this time all 11 architectures should be released together.
The Linux kernel would be a 2.6.17. Other news would be gcc version 4.1 as the default compiler, Xorg and some new apt bugs^Wfeatures.
Until the time of Etch's release, there are several parties (as usual). For more information have also a look at BSPMarathon @wiki.debian.org.